Aston Villa vs Club Brugge LIVE: Champions League confirmed line-ups ahead of second leg

Marcus Rashford and Morgan Rogers each begin tonight and might be hoping to be named in Thomas Tuchel’s first England squad on Friday.

Rashford has not been chosen by England for over a yr however has returned to type at Villa, whereas Rogers has been among the best attacking midfielders in England this season.

Aston Villa had been unbeaten at house within the Champions League league section, together with that well-known win over Bayern Munich.

Regardless of a health concern, Emi Martinez begins for Aston Villa – however Marco Asensio and Leon Bailey, each scorers final week in Brugge, drop to the bench.

Marcus Rashford begins and Boubacar Kamara provides to the midfield, whereas there are adjustments at full-back too with Matty Money and Ian Maatsen changing Axel Disasi and Lucas Digne.

Aston Villa XI: Martinez; Money, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen; Kamara, Tielemans; McGinn, Rogers, Rashford; Watkins.

Membership Brugge XI: Mignolet; Sabbe, Ordonez, Mechele, De Cuyper; Onyedika, Jashari; Talbi, Vanaken, Tzolis; Jutgla.

Aston Villa are delighted to have three-times Champions League winner Marco Asensio of their squad for the knockout phases.

Former Actual Madrid and PSG ahead Asensio scored the late penalty to offer Aston VIlla a 3-1 lead in final week’s first leg. “His expertise is clearly key,” stated defender Matty Money.

“Him stepping over the penalty, I form of knew the place it was going. He reveals that management with that high quality day in and time out.

“He’s clearly performed for the most important membership on this planet and different golf equipment as effectively. He’s acquired a number of high quality and his mindset and his mentality is wonderful.”

Matty Money says Aston Villa are daring to dream within the Champions League.

A particular finish to the marketing campaign could possibly be on the playing cards as Unai Emery’s facet are additionally within the FA Cup quarter-finals and nonetheless within the race for European qualification by means of the Premier League.

“As gamers and as a gaggle, you clearly need to do the very best you possibly can and also you need to dream about enjoying within the large video games and competing,” Money stated.

“However it’s a cliche, you’ve got to take each recreation because it comes as a result of while you get into the later phases the standard of the groups you’re up towards is a top quality, so you possibly can solely do as finest as you possibly can.

“We would like a dream, we need to try to compete in each competitors we will and hopefully we will.”

Unai Emery will not be prepared for Aston Villa’s Champions League journey to finish as his facet goal to guide their quarter-final spot.

It has been a dream debut season within the Champions League for Villa to this point however Emery is in search of much more, with a doable quarter-final tie Paris Saint-Germain looming.

“At all times we need to enhance and get higher,” he stated. “We have now to see it on the sphere, we have now to actually present it.

“We’re getting higher, however we’re beneath our expectation within the Premier League and we have now to try to get the steadiness within the subsequent week and months within the Premier League.

“In fact every part we’re doing within the Champions League and FA Cup is incredible, to maintain it now’s our problem.

“I do not need to cease, I need to get one thing extra. However it’ll be very tough ranging from tomorrow.”

Tyrone Mings says it has been inconceivable to neglect his Bruges blunder however was completely satisfied to earn redemption as he helped Aston Villa put one foot within the Champions League quarter-finals.

Mings was a part of the Villa facet that beat Membership Brugge 3-1 within the first leg of the last-16 tie on Tuesday.

It was simply 118 days because the centre-back’s embarrassing error – inexplicably choosing up a purpose kick within the penalty space – despatched the Premier League facet crashing to a 1-0 defeat in November’s league section match.

“How a lot was it on my thoughts? It’s inconceivable for it to not be as a result of all people retains bringing it up on a regular basis,” Mings stated.

An “unbelievable” goal-line clearance from Tyrone Mings was hailed as a “turning level” as Aston Villa took an enormous step in the direction of the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 3-1 win at Membership Brugge and the centre-back achieved redemption in Belgium.

Former England defender Mings stated he has “unfinished enterprise” from his earlier journey to Membership Brugge, after conceded a bizarre penalty for inexplicably choosing up the ball in his personal field in Aston Villa’s 1-0 defeat to the identical opposition in November.

Unai Emery could possibly be set for a rendez vous together with his former employers.

Ought to Villa beat Brugge tonight they’ll face Paris Saint-Germain within the quarter-finals, the facet Emery managed between 2016 and 2018.

Sadly for the Spaniard, his time at PSG is finest remembered for his or her historic collapse at Barcelona within the Remontada.

If Villa progress Emery would go face to face with the Barcelona supervisor from that well-known night time, in Luis Enrique.